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I a. H. KENT.

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM.

(Application filed act. 21, 1898.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM.

(Application filed. Oct. 21, 1898.)

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UNITED STATES j PATENT OF ICE.

GEORGE H. KENT, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PHOTOGRAPH-ALBUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,043, dated June 5,1900.

Application filed October 2 l 1 89 8.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. KENT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPhotograph-Albu ms,of which the following is aspeciiication.

The object of this invention is to provide a blank album-that is tosay,a book having blank leaves, whether single or double, of suitable sizeand shape to receive photographs and hold the same securely, with meanscontained within the album orbetween theleaves whereby any leaf in thebook may receive incisions or slits and thereby be adapted to holdphotographs of the size and shape desired, such incisions being locatedor guided by one portion of my invention and being adapted to be made inthe leaves without injury to the leaves beneath by another portion of myinvention.

The nature of my invention in detail is fully described below andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a viewof a blank book of suitable size and shape to be used as aphotograph-albu m, such book being represented as lying open. Fig. 2 isa similar view of my metallic base-plate or guard-plate removed. Fig. 3is a similar view of my pattern and guiding card removed. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of my improved album 'with the parts in position afterhaving made the incisions or slits in one of the leaves, portions of theguiding-card or pattern and leaf being represented as broken out thebetter to illustrate my invention. Fig. 5 is a similar view of a patternand guiding card adapted to photographs of different sizes from thatindicated in Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the cover, and B the leaves,of blank book made particularlyfor the reception of photographs. The leaves are preferably removableand may be made single or doublethat is to say, in pairs fold ed attheir outer edges, as shown at B.

0 represents a flat plate of the shape and nearly or quite the size ofone of the leaves, said plate being smooth, imperforate, and of amaterial, preferably metal, which is suffi- Serial No. 694,232. (Nomodel.)

ciently tough to be not easily punctured or out by the point of theblade of a penknife.

D is a piece of cardboard or similar material of substantially the sizeand shape of the plate O. This cardboard has printed or otherwiseinscribed upon its surface diagrams E of the size and shape ofphotographs. In Fig. 3 the diagrams are adapted for pocket-kodakpictures, and in Fig. 5 the diagrams are adapted for a larger size, suchas folding pocket-kodak pictures. The cards may have one or morediagrams upon them, as desired. This card is provided Within eachdiagram with four slits or incisions F, each slit being cut entirelythrough the card and extending diagonally across a corner of thediagram, as shown.

The album as sold contains between or within its leaves the metallicbase-plate or guard-plate O and one or more of the pattern and guidecards D. When the owner of the album desires to secure a photograph toone of the leaves, he slips the plate 0 under the leaf (or within it ifit is double) and lays thereon the guide-card D having a printed diagramon its surface which corresponds in size and shape with said photograph.Then with the point of a penknife blade he cuts the leaf through thefour slits F which serve to guide the knife, the point of which bearsagainst and passes over the surface of the metallic plate C, and therebyprotects the leaves under the leaf which is being out. By this means theowner of the book can make four slits in the leaf, whereby provision ismade for the reception of the four corners of the photograph, can besure that these slits are properly located to receive a photograph ofthe particular size selected, and can make these incisions withoutinjury to the next leaf or any following leaves. After this is done thebook is closed, the plate 0 and the guide-card D remaining between theleaves until it is desired to insert another photograph.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In aphotograph-alloum the combination, with the leaves thereof, of asmooth, flat, imperforate guard-plate adapted to lie under a leaf andmade of sufficiently-tough material to resist the point of the blade ofa penknite, and a guide and pattern card provided with a diagramcorresponding in size and shape with that of a photograph and having aseries of slits located wholly within but extending to the lines of saiddiagram, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a photograph-albumthe combination, with the leaves thereof, of theguard-plate 0 corresponding substantially in size and shape with saidleaves and the guide and pattern card D provided with a diagram E andwith a series of slits F formed in said card wholly within the corners.of the diagram but extially as described.

GEORGE I-I. KENT. Witnesses: HENRY W. WILLIAMS,

A. N. BONNEY.

